Setting Priorities: Algeria’s Foreign Policy and Opportunities for Moscow

... relations scholarship in recent years, but also with the country’s approach to specific problems – in particular, with the “regional solution for regional problems” proposition which describes the APDR’s view of the conflicts in Libya and the Sahel. Despite a clear positing of foreign policy principles, the geographical priorities of APDR’s foreign policy are not so obvious. If they were defined quite distinctly in the time of A.A. Bouteflika (Algerian diaspora abroad – Maghreb – Arab world – Africa – Non-Aligned Movement – global institutions), the program documents adopted under A. Tebboune and the president’s speeches emphasize only two regions: namely, the Arab world and Africa. The Maghreb, whose importance is mentioned ...